long black veil — текст песни (country gentlemen)

Date:10/9/97
subject: Long Black Veil
transcribed by: Brad Kale at hankspad@hotmail.com


Long Black Veil
by Wilkins and Dill
as played by The Country Gentlemen


(G)
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
(D) (G)
there was someone killed `neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene but they all agreed
(D) (G)
that the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

The judge said son what is your alibi
if you were somewhere else than you don`t have to die.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
for I`d been in the arms of my best friends wife

(chorus)
(G) (G)
She walks the hills in a long black veil
(G) (G)
she visits my grave when the night winds wail
(G)
nobody knows, nobody sees
(D) (G)
nobody knows but me.


The scaffold was high and eternity near
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
in a long black veil, she cries over my bones.